Prof. Cox received the B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1986, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 1988 and 1992, respectively.
Since then he has been on the faculty in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. His research interests include parallel processing, computer architecture, distributed systems, concurrent programming, and performance evaluation.
He is currently involved in the design and implementation of TreadMarks, a software distributed shared memory system running on a network of workstations. He has also worked with Alejandro Schaffer on FASTLINK, a project to provide fast sequential and parallel genetic linkage analysis software.
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E-Mail: alc@cs.rice.edu